"Here are two very good inns for the entertainment of travellers; the _White Hart_ is much noted in these parts, being called, by way of distinction, _Scole Inn_; the house is a large brick building, adorned with imagery and carved work in several places, as big as the life. It was built in 1655, by _John Peck_, Esq., whose arms impaling his wife's, are over the porch door. The sign is very large, beautified all over with a great number of images of large stature carved in wood, and was the work of one _Fairchild_; the arms about it are those of the chief towns and gentlemen in the county, viz. _Norwich, Yarmouth, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Yarmouth, Bacon of Garboldisham, Hobart, Conwaleis_, impaling _Bukton, Teye, Thurston, Castleton_, and many others; _Peck's_ arms are _arg_. on a chevron ingrailed, _gul_. three croslets pattee of the field; his wife's are _arg_., a fess between two crescents in chief, a lion rampant in base _gul_., which coat I think is borne by the name of _Jetheston_. Here was lately a very round large bed, big enough to hold fifteen or twenty couple, in imitation (I suppose) of the remarkable great bed at _Ware_. The house was in all things accommodated, at first, for large business; but the road not supporting it, it is in much decay at present; though there is a good bowling-green and a pretty large garden, with land sufficient for passengers' horses. The business of these two inns is much supported by the annual cock-matches that are here fought." In Cruttwell's _Tour through the whole Island of Great Britain_ (Lond. 12mo. 1801), vol. v. 208., is the following:-- "Osmondeston, or Schole. The inn here was once remarkable for a pompous sign, with ridiculous ornaments, and is said to have cost a thousand pounds; long since decayed." I shall be glad to be referred to any other notices of this sign, and am desirous of knowing if any drawing or engraving of it be extant. C.H. COOPER. Cambridge, 21st Jan. 1850. * * * * * PASSAGES FROM POPE. In addition to the query of "P.C.S.S." (No. 13. p. 201.), in which I take great interest, I would beg leave to ask what evidence there is that Quarles had a _pension?_ He had, indeed, a small _place_ in the household of James the First's queen, Anne; and if he had a _pension_ on her death, it would have been from James, not from Charles. I would also, in reference to Pope, beg leave to propound another query.